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♡ ▬ NSFW content (MDNI). | ☁ ▬ means it's angst. | ↺ ▬ means it's a WIP.
Yandere Original Characters ∘₊✧──────✧₊∘
Kim Seo-Yun x gn!reader | Kim Jeong-Hyun x gn!reader | drabble:
♡ "You make me feel like I am clean again"
Avatar (2009) ∘₊✧──────✧₊∘
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Call of Duty (2022) ∘₊✧──────✧₊∘
Konig x male!reader:
♡ "Oh, oh-oh"
Castlevania (2017) ∘₊✧──────✧₊∘
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CREEPYPASTA FANDOM ∘₊✧──────✧₊∘
multi!characters x incubus!reader | drabble:
♡ "Just wanna be one of your toys, tonight"
DCU ∘₊✧──────✧₊∘
JASON TODD x male!reader:
"You get me so high"
Dead by Daylight (2016) ∘₊✧──────✧₊∘
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Jutjutsu Kaisen (2018) ∘₊✧──────✧₊∘
GOJO SATORU x male!husband!reader:
☁ "I WANT THE YOU WHO WANTS ME AGAIN" [1/3]
☁ "WHY AM I IN LOVE ALONE? (WHY AM I HURTING ALONE?)" [2/3]
☁♡ "PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME (PLEASE DON'T FALL)" [3/3]
☁ alternate ending [AU]
☁♡ "YOU ALREADY HAVE A PIECE OF MY HEART (WHICH I HAVE NEVER GIVEN TO YOU)" | au's and what ifs drabble
↳ ❛ __ ❜ [playlist link]
Hein Era!RYOMEN SUKUNA X concubine!ftm!reader X Heian Era!GOJO SATORU:
♡ "Darling, won't you just plead, or should I begin to bleed?"
Marvel ∘₊✧──────✧₊∘
PETER PARKER x male!superhero!reader:
"You're just making sure I'm never gettin' over you" [1/2]
♡ "Baby, you know that you won" [2/2]
My Hero Academia (2014) ∘₊✧──────✧₊∘
DABI (TOUYA TODOROKI) x ftm!reader:
♡ "Just like that, baby"
DABI (TOUYA TODOROKI), TOMURA SHIGARAKI, TAISHIRO TOYOMITSU, SHOTA AIZAWA x ftm!reader:
♡ "Breathe through it"
Resident Evil (1996) ∘₊✧──────✧₊∘
ghostface!LEON KENNEDY x ftm!ghostface!reader:
♡ "Comin' back for more?"
Sally Face (2016) ∘₊✧──────✧₊∘
SAL FISHER x ftm!reader:
☁ "I was the boy who was on your side"
SAL FISHER x ftm!reader:
♡ "I'll show you how we're supposed to feel (when we meet at Orion's belt)"
LARRY JOHNSON:
↺ ♡ "'Cause it's not a figure of speech, you got me on my knees"
Slashers ∘₊✧──────✧₊∘
COREY CUNNINGHAM x gn!reader:
♡ "Helping Hand"
multi. characters x transmasc!reader | dating drabble:
"beautiful (darling)"
multi.characters x male!slasher!reader | dating drabble:
"take my soul (need control)"
poly!BILLY LOOMIS & STU MACHER x male!reader:
"Line of Sight"
poly!COREY CUNNINGHAM & OG!MICHAEL MYERS x gn!reader
"Say yes to heaven (say yes to me)"
The Legend of Korra (2012) ∘₊✧──────✧₊∘
TONRAQ x male!reader
♡ "situation might get sticky, icky"
Teen Wolf (2011) ∘₊✧──────✧₊∘
MIECZYSLAW "STILES" STILINSKI x male!werewolf!reader:
♡ "Burn for you"
DEUCALION x male!werewolf!reader:
♡ "Show Me How" [1/2]
♡ "Show Me How" [2/2]
The Walking Dead (2010) ∘₊✧──────✧₊∘
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The Witcher (2019) ∘₊✧──────✧₊∘
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Update: Chapter 6 - The Basement.
INDEX | my beta reader commented he personally wanted to kill atlas for what he does this chapter. so like. hope you enjoy!
Kallisto heard Atlas from far, far away. She was was accustomed to keeping an ear out for him. Judging by the extra weight in his steps, she sensed that he was ready to sour the night. With a practiced ease, she took several napkins and covered her work. When he was mad he always found a way to mess with the food (once, he had torn a leg off the chicken before it had the chance to touch the table. Another time, he clawed off a slice of cake and she had to cut it and re-frost it.)
“Did you prepare anything for Naivara?” He asked.
“I did not.”
“Let me have the kitchen.” He ushered her away. He never cooked if he could help it, so Kallisto found this display odd. He grabbed a knife and a cutting board, then hunted for something on the counter.
“So have you made up?” Kallisto asked.
“Hell no,” he said, grabbing a large orange bell pepper. With a practiced ease, he began to carve it into fine slices. Kallisto couldn’t help feeling small. The last time she saw him at a counter preparing anything for anyone, their parents had still been alive. He had been a teenager. “Where’s the skillet?” He asked.
“Why do you need it?”
“Where’s the skillet?”
She hated that. She tugged it out from the drawer and placed it on the counter. Atlas lifted the cutting board and slid the slices of pepper into the skillet in one clean motion.
“Are you going to cook it?” She asked.
“No,” he said, using the knife to arrange the slice so each and every one touched the skillets base. He grabbed a bowl and began serving the bell peppers into it. Kallisto knew better than to judge him in any way he could sense, so she stepped away and tried not to be too upset about cleaning an extra dish for no reason. “I need you to do me a favor,” he said. “Go give this to Naivara.”
Kallisto stared at him in disbelief. He offered the bowl to her and she held it, but she couldn’t just go.
“You’re...giving her food that will blister her.”
“I know,” he said. “Listen, the situation is complicated.” He glanced to check if Skipper or Orion were near, then leaned in quietly. “We’ve been robbed. It’s her fault. I’m trying to line things up so she doesn’t cause a scene and we can fix things without the whole town knowing something went wrong. It’s for one night. Just one.”
“We got robbed?” Kallisto whispered.
“Everything,” he said. “Everything in the basement is gone. That project we talked about? Gone. It’s all gone. We have to start from scratch and it’s her fault.” Kallisto felt her heart twist. After their parents died, the apartment emptied out. Everything she could pawn was exchanged for coin. She didn’t like things being taken, didn’t like losing things in general. Hatred crept up her throat. “I got her in the basement right now,” Atlas said. “I’m organizing something to make sure she never makes a mistake like this again. That involves keeping her quiet, least for tonight. So can you just...give her this? Please.”
Please. What a rare word. She nodded without thinking.
And then Atlas left her holding a bowl of tainted bell peppers.
And she went downstairs.
And she stepped outside, and found a basement locked shut with a belt. She unbuckled it and heard the creak of the stairs.
“Kallisto?” Naivara called. “Are you going to let me out?”
“I’m just bringing you something to eat,” she said. “Hopefully Atlas calms down soon. I don’t think you’ll be down there too long.”
“You think so?” Naivara asked.
“Yeah,” Kallisto said. “It’s temporary. It has to be. You know how he gets.”
“Is he actually gonna do it?” She asked. Kallisto opened up a door and slid the bowl onto the highest step, shutting it sharply.
“Do what?” Kallisto asked.
“Make me go into the forest.” Kallisto raised her eyebrows.
“Why would he do that?”
“He…” Naivara paused. “Do...you know what we’re doing, Kallisto?”
“Not really. If Atlas doesn’t want me knowing, that’s how I’d prefer to keep it.” She buckled it back up, making it tight as possible.
“Is he going to do it?” Naivara asked. “Is he just psyching me out? Is this just a test?”
“I don’t know, Naivara. I don’t know. You should eat instead of letting the nerves get the best of you.”
For a moment all Kallisto heard was crickets. The distant hum of mosquitos. The delicate crackle of palms flittering in the breeze. When she heard the quiet crunch of chewing, she left without a word.
ATLAS
Savan pissed him off. Just looking at the man was enough to light a fire in Atlas’ stomach. He stood outside Room 4 and prepared himself. Naivara is sick and she is staying upstairs. Naivara is sick. She’s going to be staying upstairs with me. Naivara and sick and Kallisto will be taking care of her upstairs.
He opened the door and paused at the sight of Mason. Eating. With Naivara’s father. The fellow waved as if he belonged there. Savan glowered at him the way he always did.
“Savan,” Atlas greeted. “Naivara’s sick. She’s upstairs, Kallisto is taking care of her.”
“Sick?” Savan asked. “How?”
“She’s got a fever,” Atlas said. “She’s burning up.”
“How could that be? She was fine earlier?” Savan said. “She was fine. How could she get sick? She doesn’t...she...how?”
“Sometimes people get sick.”
“She’s an elf,” Savan said. “She’s delicate, elves aren’t hardy as me or you. You can’t take your eyes off her. She needs Treasure, you need to get Treasure and have her help Naivara, she needs someone there who can make sure she doesn’t get worse, who knows the signs-”
“Savan,” Atlas said. “I will do that.”
“Can I visit?” Savan asked. “I need to see her.”
“No,” Atlas said. “You need to heal.”
“He’s right, Mr. Goldenholi,” Mason said. “You can’t get up. You need rest.”
“Well, uh...a note!” Savan suggested. “I’ll write her a note, I just need some way to talk to her, anything-”
“She’s barely awake,” Atlas said.
“What are you doing here?!” Savan asked. “Go get Treasure!”
Atlas left, thanking the stars for paternal panic. Mason frowned, his face pulled tight.
“She didn’t look sick at all,” Mason said.
“Could you check on her?” Savan asked. “Please?”
“Sure, sure,” Mason said. “I’ll go ask.” He left and chased after Atlas, who was already halfway up the staircase. “Atlas, uh, would it be possible to see Naivara? I can heal I might come in handy-”
“No,” Atlas said. “You can’t visit her. You aren’t a local, you’ll catch whatever she has and then keel over and die.”
“I just thought I might be helpful-”
“The answer is no,” Atlas said. “Things have been busy but if you want to be helpful, tomorrow we can discuss a paid opportunity for you. Right now I need to go tend to Naivara.” He continued upstairs. Mason watched in quiet disbelief.
“When did you notice she was sick?” Mason asked.
“In the tavern.”
“How? What were her symptoms?”
“She was red,” Atlas said. “So red she made a ruby look pink. I brought her up immediately.”
“Why was she in the tavern?”
“She wanted to eat something.”
A lie. A bold-faced lie, because Naivara had gone downstairs with food. Unless she wanted to eat by herself. Mason wasn’t sure what happened for that brief period he was gone, but the soft, solemn Naivara disappeared when he returned. There was defensive edge. A quiet anger. He didn’t know what to do or say, and Mr. Goldenholi chose not to acknowledge her removing herself. He had sighed and moved on, poking at his plate. Mason’s head throbbed at the thought of some hidden truth that sullied the dynamic he had imagined so sweet. He watched Atlas disappear from view, frowning.
Downstairs, he found the barkeep and asked if Atlas had gone upstairs with Naivara. He said, “Mind your own.” Then he asked a patron if they had seen Atlas go upstairs with a woman and he said “We don’t talk about that.” He asked a drunk if Atlas took a brunette upstairs and they said “He prefers blondes,” before bursting into laughter. Mason didn’t consider cheating a knee-slapper but to each their own. An open secret. How ugly.
Mason stepped into the backyard for some fresh air, relishing the cool of the night. The moon was full and bright, granting the blossoms against the fence delicate halos. A little lunar kiss. How lovely. He descended the porch and felt a crunch under his foot. He glanced down and saw a splintered skewer beneath his heel. So she came out here. He looked toward the basement and saw a belt cinching the doors shut. It began to pulse, as though something were shoving against it. He approached quietly, crouching down. He tried to peer through into the basement but it was very, very dark. He heard shuddering breathing.
“What are you doing?” He jolted to his feet, plastering a grin over his face.
“Hey,” he said. “Hi. How are you?”
Kallisto raised an eyebrow.
“You’re snooping.”
“I wanted some air,” he said. “And I noticed there’s something in the basement.”
“After the bloom we have a lot of critters come over the perimeter,” she said. “The butterflies attract them. One of them got into the basement. We’re keeping it locked down there for the time being.”
“Oh could I take a peek?”
“No,” Kallisto said. “That’s unsafe. Why don’t you go back upstairs?”
Mason’s smile faltered. Call it a hunch, he wanted down there.
“Alright,” he said. “But uh…” He snapped a flower off the fence. “Yeah. No, I get it. Hey, uh…these are some nice flowers. What are they called?”
“Sambac.”
“They smell divine,” he said. “And they are beautiful. Especially on a night like this. They should really be appreciated.” He paused for a moment, twisting the stem between his fingers. A faint shimmer settled upon the petals. “Back home, we take flowers like these and tell them secrets. People say it’s good for the plants.”
“That’s silly,” Kallisto said. He snapped another off, made a show of comparing the two he held, and tossed one over his shoulder. Toward the basement.
“I think it’s nice,” he said. “Something something people are good, actually. What harm does it do to talk to a flower. But that’s just me. It always made me feel better. Oh, that reminds me, I’m searching for a mirror. Do you know where I could find one?”
“A mirror?” Kallisto asked, incredulous. “Didn’t take you for the vain type.”
“I’m not on the road anymore,” he said. “Is it so bad to want to know how I’m looking?”
“You look fine. I’m sure many a girl will swoon at the sight of you, should you ever leave the Grove. Do you plan to stay holed up with Mr. Goldenholi, Mason?” Her tone was light but cold. He nodded. “Well I hope you’re good company. Since Naivara is sick I’ll be the one tending to him, for the most part.”
“Oh. Well, that’s nice of you.” Her expression was flat. He cleared his throat. “Anyway,” he said. “The mirror. Do you have a mirror I could borrow?”
“I think I do. Follow me.”
He followed her, gently tucking the flower into his pocket.
The burn began in her stomach. It crept into her throat, violated her tongue, and made the smooth wet of her mouth a hostile, unkind place. A place where she had to prevent her teeth from touching, a place where her tongue was flexed, hovering. Because the moment it ran over flesh, a burst of heat stung her whole mouth. Even grazing her teeth against her lip sent an arc of pain through her flesh. And she was thirsty, which made it all worse because licking at the wounds just made the pain rawer and hotter.
She leaned up against the door, glowering flatly at the darkness beyond. At the fireflies twitching in the dark. At the faintest indication of the moon. At the flower waiting for her.
The gate opened. Naivara spotted several figures approaching, not-quite visible. A massive figure leaned forward and began undoing the makeshift lock. Naivara hurried down the stairs and retreated where the moonlight couldn’t reach.
“Naivara,” Atlas called, slipping in once the doors opened. “Why don’t you come on out. We’re going to have a talk with some friends.” She crept under the raised beds and hid between the legs. If she was doomed, she may as well make his life harder. “Naivara.” He walked around the basement. His shoes were murky now, dusted with dirt. “Naivara. Naivara?” Another set of shoes trailed behind him. These were richly colored boots, though the heel and toes were scuffed and faded.
“Maybe she got out.” Skipper.
“She’s in here,” Atlas said with finality. A massive, leathery, and rough set of boots stepped into view. “Naivara,” Atlas called. “Come out. Come on.” He wandered. He approached the different areas of the basement. He turned, the toes of his shoes facing her. He crouched and met her gaze. “What are you?” He asked. “A cat?”
Naivara scrambled backwards. Her back collided with a set of legs. Then she was pulled up to her feet, Huxley clutching at her arm tightly. Atlas stood across from her, shaking his head.
“This is what I live with,” he said, circling around to approach them. “That’s not even half of it. Look at what she did.” He gestured to the empty shelves and clipped sprouts. “It’s all gone. All our efforts. Gone.”
She opened her mouth but the air made her blisters sting. She shut her mouth and gave up, trying to shove her way out of Huxley’s hold.
“You can let her go.” Huxley released her. She scurried away from Atlas but bumped right into Skipper, who stared at the scene in dismay.
“It’s all gone?” She asked.
“All of it.”
“Great work,” Skipper said, clapping. “Great fucking work, everyone!” Naivara shrank in on herself.
“Shut up, Skipper.” Mallory was here. On the stairwell, but there. He was seated, hunched over, glowering down at the whole scene. Huxley gravitated toward him, silent.
“Oh, can it,” she spat. “All that work was for nothing.”
“Are we all in agreement that Naivara should be held responsible for her actions?” Atlas asked. Skipper nodded. Huxley nodded. Naivara withered.
“Great. I’m thinking you all show her exactly what you went through to get these components. How about that?”
“I’m all for it,” Skipper said. Mallory and Huxley were still and silent.
“Wonderful. Huxley, watch Naivara. I need to talk to these two outside for a second.”
Outside, Mallory felt a great heat burning deep in his stomach. He didn’t cross paths with Naivara much but she was just a girl. A girl with a blistered mouth on the verge of fainting.
“You shouldn’t do this,” Mallory said. “She’s going to get hurt.”
“Look…” Atlas lowered his voice. “It will only be a day. Two, at most. You can bring her back after the first night. I can figure out getting components back but what I need, what we need, is Naivara to recognize how important and hard what we do is. A night in the forest will knock some sense into her.”
“So it’s all fake?” Skipper asked. “Did you actually get robbed?”
“We were robbed. I don’t expect her to actually fine components in the forest.”
“Moon,” Skipper said. “Give me strength.”
“Why should we do this?” Mallory asked. “It’s a waste of time. It’s a dangerous scare tactic.”
“Because I have twenty gold with your names on it.”
Twenty. Oh, the night went still. Twenty. Twenty could go far. Twenty could give Clarice months of work off, and Felix new toys, and it could renovate Sistine’s. Twenty was no small feat.
“Each?” Mallory asked. Atlas nodded.
“I’ll do it,” Skipper said. “I’m in. Twenty goes a long way these days.”
“It’s dangerous out there.”
“One day won’t kill anyone. You’ll bring her right back. It’s easy money, Mallory.” He resented the thought of taking money from Atlas to punish a scared, hurting girl. That was gross. It was unkind. Mallory thought of her father, two stories above, recovering from a wolf bite. His daughter venturing into the ugly, endless pit of green that was the forest.
“It’s wrong.”
“You want to know what’s wrong,” Atlas said. “All your hard work being sabotaged because she couldn’t take it seriously. All the people we couldn’t help, because of her. If you do this, she’ll learn her lesson and the whole town will be better off. Come on, Mallory. There’s no two ways about it. And it’s just a day, maybe two. You won’t get far enough to warrant being pelted by climbers, much less tempt direwolves. Come on, Mallory. It’s not like anyone is getting hurt.”
I think it’s disgusting you don’t regard her as anyone, Mallory thought.
“If you don’t go, she’ll be in a worse position. You could be the difference between something going wrong and something horribly. It’s just one day. It’s just one long hike.”
Just one day. Twenty gold. Clarice. Felix. Just one long hike and one hurt girl.
Mallory did the math and decided twenty gold wasn’t such a bad deal after all.
Skipper dressed Naivara up. The clothes actually fit and the armor was snug. Atlas was gone, probably upstairs, lying to her father. Huxley was outside, smoking. She smelled the cigarette, thick and heavy. Mallory was absent entirely.
“Alright,” Skipper said. “You’re set. Just one last thing…” She threw a cloak over Naivara, tugging the hood up and over. “Don’t want a scandal on our hands, du wi?” Naivara was too tired to fight it. Skipper tugged the hood off. Then she began to tug Naivara’s hair back. She managed to wrangle it into a thick braid, tying it with a scrap of ribbon. “There,” Skipper said, lifting the hood over her head. “Better?” Naivara didn’t bother acknowledging it, even though it did feel better. One small kindness didn’t erase the reality that she was part of this awful exercise in punishment.
The doors opened and she caught a glimpse of the sky. Dawn. A precious, delicate blue tinged with lilac. No clouds. Today would be a good day. As she crept out of the basement, she snatched the flower from the ground. She held it beneath her cloak, stroking the soft petals as Skipper and Huxley guided her out of the yard, down the street, toward Eastgate. Mallory was already there. He held a small twist-tube of white paste. Naivara thought it odd, because she had only ever seen those twist-tubes inside Treasure’s. He had three dots along each cheek and immediately applied three dots to Skipper, who didn’t flinch, then Huxley, who had to bend down. And then he approached her.
He looked guilty. Naivara wanted to grab him by the neck and shake him. Sink her nails and make that guilt turn into something she would prefer to see. She didn’t know what she would prefer to see but she presumed it was something along the lines of fear. Respect. Not this putrid, ugly guilt and pity that made her feel small.
He dotted her cheeks. It felt like a cold balm. She instinctively reached up to smudge it and he grabbed her wrists, shaking his head.
“It’s protection,” he said. “It’s what my clan does. Don’t touch it. It will keep you safe.”
Naivara severely doubted that.
The gate opened. A few feet stood between herself and endless roiling green. She shut her eyes and sent a prayer: Let me see my father again.
And then Skipper, Mallory, and Huxley dragged her into the unknown.
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